"He tried to convince his mom that its finders keepers but his mom made him return it"


"Mother messaged me telling me she had a good story to tell me and to check my cameras around a certain time."

Wasn't easy being a planet hunter back in the day *promote

I'm looking for
1 tug
The pull of a planet
1 tell
A wobbling sun
I've searched for years
Haven't found a one
But they're out there

1 jump
In radial redshift
1 slip
Of spectral lines
They'll see if I can show them the sines

Pish tosh
Green men
Take five
Take ten

Just a little cash guys

Budget's tight
Don't fund this trash guys

I can take a hint
Better face the facts
Second-hand'll have to do

Eww
All you planet hunters at the bottom
You've got fact & fantasy entwined
Finding planets except they haven't got one

Well they gotta be forming readily
When you think about it given we've got nine

1 jump
A blip in the spectrum
1 shift of meters per second
1 graph of period power
They laugh but I'm not sour

Here goes
18 months of data
Cross & correlate it
All I gotta do is run

Pish tosh
Green men
Ah don't mind them
If only they'd look closer
Would they see a pure void
No sirree
They'd find out
There's worlds galore
To see

Make way for Pegasi
51 Pegasi

First was a world
Round an old pulsar
That's true
But the news
Is a sun-like star
With wobble
Too quick & precise
To be designed
No fluke not a spot
If you like it hot
You're gonna love this find

Pegasi 51b
Planet discovered
Orbit traced
Every 4 days
Hot as can be
Its order-Jupiter size
Was something of a surprise
Especially given its star's proximity

Pegasi 51b
It's a new era
To detect
Exoplanets
Soon there'll be three
As planet pulls on its Sun
It shifts the stellar spectrum
That's how we found 51b Pegasi

How'd a planet get so close in orbit
Cause I thought you needed ice to form it
Did it later undergo some strange migration
Star too small to be so long-pulsating
And too old to be so quick rotating
Is there any other good interpretation

This will certainly help with our funding

We got your funding
We got your funding

Got a surface of 1200 C

It's treacherous
So treacherous

If in time this new breakthrough feels mundane
Planets are common

That's proof
Of the truth
I've been telling you
This is no mean anomaly

Pegasi 51b
Planet uncovered
Round a far
Main sequence star
Spectral type G
We know its mass to be high
Half Jupiter by sine i

It's 15.61 pc from home
And it shakes our faith in how planets are formed
And its star is in Pegasus
Give it an A and thus
Label the planet as b
51 Pegasi

Plotting Doppler shifts is glacial-pace
And that astrometry never prevails
But baby you're in luck cause
Up in space
You got a planet-finder never fails

You got the power of statistics now
You got a view without an atmosphere
So no more nights spent locked up in your tower
All you gotta do is wait right here
And I say

Kepler the planet-searcher
Got a dip, no 2, no 3
We just measure brightness
Plot it out & that's transiting photometry

When your stars do this
And your curves displace
Then your star's got this
Transiting its face

Then you hit compute
And lookie here

You get good diameter data
From that dip
And orbit distance from the length of year

Well now we need this tale supported by
A ground observer with a good Échelle
We got 2000 planets certified
2000 more that only time will tell

But let's take em all, plot em out
And find out if we're really all alone
Is there a rocky world we've found no doubt
That orbits in the habitable zone
Like home?

Kepler the planet searcher
Got an Earth 452b
Part of a throng
40 billion strong

There ain't never been a field
Clever as the field
There ain't never been a field
Better than the field they call
Exoplanetology

I can show you a world
A shining shimmering planet
Found concealed in the band-shifts
Of the closest star in sight

I've found hope in the skies
And facing wonder I wonder
Could the sine wave discovered be
A planet fit for life

A whole new world
A new fantastic point of blue
Placed in that narrow zone
Where water flows
Midway tween cold & steaming

A whole new world
Its sun a faint, reddish hue
Could there be waiting here
A biosphere
Evolving in this whole new world to view

Fathoming a whole new world to view

Unbelievable find
Indescribable feeling
Earthlings someday revealing
Through directly captured light
A whole new world

Don't just stare from a far

Though nigh impossible to see

Wouldn't close up be bolder

Next to its parent's flair
If life is there
We'll know through atmosphere spectroscopy

A whole new world

Block the glare of the star

A laser starshot to pursue

With a star-shaped occulter

Chasing that crazy dream
That's always been
Of walking in a whole new world with you

a whole new world
That's where we'll be
A thrilling chase
A home in space
For you and me

Is this show available on the Canadian version of Netflix? I go to the website and it's about as clear as mud, and intuitive as brain surgery.

If it and the Marvel shows are available, I might try it.


Edit- Never mind, found a listing on Finder.com. Looks like there's almost nothing on the overrated Netflix Canada. Sad.

Dude! I'm gonna go get that bag! Finders keepers!

Finders keepers!

Same problem in Firefox v17 in an updated Mac OS X 10.8.2 on my client's new 13" MacBook Pro:

$ top -u
Processes: 132 total, 2 running, 4 stuck, 126 sleeping, 594 threads 08:06:31
Load Avg: 1.06, 0.85, 1.00 CPU usage: 10.37% user, 3.53% sys, 86.8% idle
SharedLibs: 15M resident, 12M data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 33217 total, 1493M resident, 65M private, 518M shared.
PhysMem: 1216M wired, 1738M active, 930M inactive, 3883M used, 4307M free.
VM: 322G vsize, 1058M framework vsize, 163854(2) pageins, 0(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 216196/213M in, 154539/18M out.
Disks: 93154/1760M read, 53341/2164M written.

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #POR #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE
2981 firefox 26.7 02:18.97 34 3 233+ 4004+ 716M+ 139M 979M+
2968 Terminal 10.1 00:10.04 7 3 157+ 373+ 16M+ 31M 34M+
3322 top 5.3 00:00.96 1/1 0 26 30 1092K 216K 1840K
1753 WindowServer 3.5 01:35.71 4 1 430- 1278- 17M- 47M- 61M-
52 hidd 3.3 01:15.74 5 3 90 68 1232K 288K 3180K
0 kernel_task 2.5 04:09.18 82/4 0 2 513+ 46M+ 0B 491M+
44 mds 0.9 01:51.20 9 7 214+ 362+ 103M+ 19M 105M+
1 launchd 0.7 00:02.92 3 0 412 44 1436K 380K 1932K
3313 mdworker 0.5 00:00.34 4 1 57 73 5836K 2760K 12M
43 mtmd 0.3 00:05.73 6 5 75+ 73+ 6264K+ 11M 9100K+
1847 SystemUIServ 0.2 00:05.80 5 4 259+ 339 10M 36M 26M
53 fseventsd 0.1 00:03.44 81 1 314 216 7368K 216K 8072K
1848 Finder 0.1 00:01.83 4 3 178 354 10M 44M 33M
21 cfprefsd 0.0 00:01.46 5 5 164+ 53+ 1004K+ 224K 1712K
...

Well and of course we know #1 actually can be continued as for some reason there seemed to already be people there.

So in fact they probably found it first a LONG time ago up by Alaska's volcanic chain via the Russia/Alaska land-bridge that would have existed there for a time; plus someone would have to fill me in but I'm not entirely sure where the Polynesians "may" fit into all of this--as I know they were also known to be GREAT seamen and went very far on extremely small vessels (the ones I'm thinking of you actually have your legs in the water and it carries about six people and is designed sort of like an odd Catamaran)--Hawaii for example was settled into by 300-500 CE. Then the Vikings in Greenland, Canada, and North America (I think just Maine and a few points in Newfoundland--they also didn't stick around for long in these areas as they left these "western" camps to go back to Greenland for the winter). Finally, Columbus made it who sailed around The Caribbean a bit (basically Cuba then Haiti I think; if I remembered right--after coming from the Canary Islands).

There may even be more history to it as unfortunately we know how history is written AND if you don't have that much of a language and worse no paper or way to reference or keep track of old material, telling your story becomes VERY hard as it was never recorded in the first place. All we have left is archeology to help guide us to these newer, more exact figures and finders.

BUT, Columbus did find the first real trade route for 15th century Europe to a "New World", one that had its own spices and plenty of bounty, and THAT is what meant everything. THIS is what people should remember, not that he found it first or the round Earth garbage--that is just bad teachers and even worse (as I READ THEM) terrible history books!

This one is good, searched for my brother, a list of TONS of army dudes with his name and he was the first on the list. and i didn't need to know his bday, only his first name last name and branch. if he isn't on the list here, it would seem that he's never even talked to a recruiter. not the best proof though maybe if your sis-in-law is smitten.

edit: it seems to depend how old his service is. for instance, brother was in the database but my father (who's service is considerably older) isn't. >> ^MycroftHomlz:

http://www.military.com/buddy-finder/
This one is pretty good... It seems I cant find him on either site.

http://www.military.com/buddy-finder/

This one is pretty good... It seems I cant find him on either site.

Little kids are such natural trip-finders. It's funny.


Oh!!! Love love love that dusty zombie trip! I really wish I had a promote in my bag. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of it!

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Our library had a children's book of Salvador Dali's work, and I really couldn't go past it. The little ones liked the pictures within pictures, and the droopy clocks in "Persistence of memory".

Anyway, not why I dropped by... you might like this:

http://videosift.com/video/DUSTY-ZOMBIES-a-Creepy-Puppet-Project

Dark, horror, wtf, puppets... seems to check most boxes?

>> ^Deano:

Also I never understood how you get to keep the ball. Surely it's the match equipment - at any sporting event over here you have to give it back.


Over here, we have a very complex and absolute law regarding things like this. Finders Keepers, I believe it is called.

Thank you so much!
You finder/sharer of groovy sifts, you.

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
What an excellent avatar picture I'll second Lann's comment, too.

If you had titled it 'Harry Potter Plays Norwegian Wood for Star Wars: The Old Republic' you wouldn't have had a problem. Fuck, how hard can that be?

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I don't know why I rely on that dupe-finder before I submit videos. I guess I just suspected a video about a movie called "The Troll Hunter" would be recognized by siftbot as a suspiciously similar video also called "The Troll Hunter". I must be too much of a dreamer.
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
And it's a dupe. Thanks for making me waste my power points. Asshole.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/The-Troll-Hunter

I don't know why I rely on that dupe-finder before I submit videos. I guess I just suspected a video about a movie called "The Troll Hunter" would be recognized by siftbot as a suspiciously similar video also called "The Troll Hunter". I must be too much of a dreamer.
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
And it's a dupe. Thanks for making me waste my power points. Asshole.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/The-Troll-Hunter

>> ^Ryjkyj:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/The-Troll-Hunter


I would've figured the match-finder thingy would've found that quite obvious dupe...